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Edited on Fri May-20-11 01:12 AM by onager
Do you remember what happened when the younger Freedom Riders asked King to join them on a bus ride?
He refused. While the show didn't provide a direct quote, at some point King apparently compared his situation in the South to Jesus Christ awaiting crucifixion.
After that, the more aggressive Freedom Riders started openly mocking King, calling him "the Lord." A couple of the interviewees thought that incident marked the beginning of the split in the civil rights movement, between the moderates and the later radicals like Stokely Carmichael.
I'd never heard that story, and found it to also have parallels to the current atheist situation. On the one side, the Faitheists and accomodationists looking down from their ivory towers, and on the other, those oh-so-nasty and intolerant people who are willing to point out that the Emperor is not only butt-nekkid, but is also most likely a child molester.
(On edit - LAGC, I posted before I read your comment. Thanks.)
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